Title. Alt account cause obviously.
Been on lemmy for like 2 years, at first it was okay, possibly because I started on lemm.ee (RIP), possibly the influx of new users from reddit has changed things, who knows.
But now I keep seeing all the same things happen here that happened on reddit. People abusing rules that go unenforced, mods removing posts/banning users only when they take offense, users (and even mods) fighting each other over instances like rival gangs, communities propped up by single users, all of it.
The only actual differences I’ve found are that there’s no ads, and some instances have a more gated sign-up process to deter bots/spammers. That’s it.
There are some good faith users of course, but it seems the vast majority just want to be in a safe space echo chamber and talk shit about each other. It’s like that meme from the office: corporate needs you to differentiate these images, and one is reddit and the other is reddit wearing a lemmy mask, they’re the same image.
People on Reddit migrated to Lemmy. They are literally the same people. It is made worse by the fact that malicious individuals can now host instances instead of just Reddit (who tried to keep the bare minimum of public image).
Exactly.
People got banned from Reddit a long time ago for the mildest criticism of the US regime and especially shitrael.
Those who were still on it have either kept quiet or condoned it.
Only after the Blue MAGAts got problems themselves Reddit suddenly became bad.
I remember the ‘Reddit refugees welcome’ phase here.
All we got was more shitlibs.